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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ends on March 16

Fourteen months after the world watched in astonishment as poorly regulated coal-washing chemicals contaminated the Elk River in West Virginia, coal country residents and supporters are gearing up for an epic showdown on March 16 with the state's Department of Environmental Protection—and the U.S. C...

Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia | US EPA

Coal is mined in Appalachia by both surface and underground mining techniques. Surface coal mining methods in the steep terrain of the central Appalachian coalfields include mountaintop removal, contour, area and highwall mining. Coal mining operations are found in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia ...

Mountain Top Removal | Sierra Club

Mining Our MountainsIn Appalachia, mining companies literally blow the tops off mountains to reach thin seams of coal. They then dump millions of tons of rubble and toxic waste into the streams and valleys below the mining sites.

Mountaintop Removal | HuffPost

Mountaintop removal in Tennessee - Nooga.com

The Appalachian Mountains are not only a landmark of East Tennessee, but a landscape that has defined the history and culture of the region. However, just a few hours north of Chattanooga, mountaintop removal-a form of surface mining for coal-is destroying the very mountains that Tennesseans cherish, impacting an area the size of metropolitan ...

World of Change: Mountaintop Mining, West Virginia : Feature ...

Mountaintop Removal | PSR

Mountaintop removal is a form of mining in which the mountain overlying the coal is blasted away with explosives. The resulting rubble is then bulldozed off the mountain, filling valleys and streams below.

High Resolution Mountaintop Removal Pictures - OVEC

Mountaintop removal coal mine in southern WV encroaching on a small community. Photo by Vivian Stockman A massive dragline, dwarfed by the huge scale of the operation, at work on a mountaintop removal operation near Kayford Mountain, W.Va Photo by Vi…

5 Foremost Pros And Cons of Mountaintop Removal | ConnectUS

iLoveMountains.org — What is mountaintop removal coal mining ...

iLoveMountains.org is the product of 14 local, state, and regional organizations across Appalachia that are working together to end mountaintop removal coal mining and create a prosperous future for the region.

What Is Mountaintop Removal Mining? | Earthjustice

Mountaintop removal coal mining, often described as "strip mining on steroids," is an extremely destructive form of mining that is devastating Appalachia. In the past few decades, over 2,000 miles of streams and headwaters that provide drinking water for millions of Americans have been permanently buried and destroyed.

Talk:Mountaintop removal mining - Wikipedia

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Mountaintop Removal (2007) - IMDb

Directed by Michael Cusack O'Connell. With Judy Bonds, Larry Gibson, Maria Gunnoe, William Mapother. Hard-hitting documentary on the effects of the radical and environmentally disastrous form of coal mining known as "Mountaintop removal."

Mountaintop removal - SourceWatch

Mountaintop removal mining (MTR) is a form of surface mining increasingly being used to replace underground mining to extract coal from the Appalachian Mountain regions of eastern Kentucky, southwest West Virgina, southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee.

Mountaintop Removal Movie from iLoveMountains.org - YouTube

iLoveMountains.org -- End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

iLoveMountains.org is the product of 14 local, state, and regional organizations across Appalachia that are working together to end mountaintop removal coal mining and create a prosperous future for the region.